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Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice from Dear Sugar
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Cheryl Strayed (Goodreads Author)
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Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything
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Joshua Foer (Goodreads Author)
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The Brain that Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science
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Triumph: Life on the Other Side of Trials, Transplants, Transition and Transformation
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Gregory S. Works (Goodreads Author)
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Soul Cure: How to Heal Your Pain and Discover Your Purpose
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What Happened
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Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10
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The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb (Goodreads Author)
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How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines
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Inspired by The Holy Ghost
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Aimee Cabo Nikolov (Goodreads Author)
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Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe
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A Brief History of Time
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The Romanov Sisters: The Lost Lives of the Daughters of Nicholas and Alexandra
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Helen Rappaport (Goodreads Author)
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The End of Your Life Book Club
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Will Schwalbe (Goodreads Author)
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People Who Eat Darkness: The True Story of a Young Woman Who Vanished from the Streets of Tokyo—and the Evil That Swallowed Her Up
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Richard Lloyd Parry (Goodreads Author)
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Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
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Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea
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Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War
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I Feel Bad About My Neck and Other Thoughts on Being a Woman
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The Stranger Beside Me: Ted Bundy: The Shocking Inside Story
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Letter to a Christian Nation
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You Are Not So Smart
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Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
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The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid
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Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy: Four Women Undercover in the Civil War
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Karen Abbott (Goodreads Author)
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The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness
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Beyond Good and Evil
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Think Like a Freak
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Sh*t My Dad Says
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Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?
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Mindy Kaling (Goodreads Author)
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A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership
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The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century
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Ian Mortimer (Goodreads Author)
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The Witches: Salem, 1692
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Stacy Schiff (Goodreads Author)
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Stumbling on Happiness
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Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began (Maus, #2)
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A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
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Rising Strong: The Reckoning. The Rumble. The Revolution
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Brené Brown (Goodreads Author)
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Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return (Persepolis, #2)
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The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir
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Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich (Goodreads Author)
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Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House
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Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt
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Look Me in the Eye
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John Elder Robison (Goodreads Author)
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Ways of Seeing
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Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife
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The Complete Persepolis
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All the President’s Men
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The World Without Us
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Talking as Fast as I Can: From Gilmore Girls to Gilmore Girls
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The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
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A Child Called "It" (Dave Pelzer, #1)
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The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
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Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action
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Simon Sinek (Goodreads Author)
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The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution
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Richard Dawkins (Goodreads Author)
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Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard
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You Are a Badass: How to Stop Doubting Your Greatness and Start Living an Awesome Life
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Jen Sincero (Goodreads Author)
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Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right
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The Right Stuff
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Beyond Belief: My Secret Life Inside Scientology and My Harrowing Escape
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Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth
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The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo
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Amy Schumer (Goodreads Author)
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Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values (Phaedrus, #1)
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Better Than Before: Mastering the Habits of Our Everyday Lives
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Gretchen Rubin (Goodreads Author)
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Lost in Shangri-la: A True Story of Survival, Adventure, and the Most Incredible Rescue Mission of World War II
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Mitchell Zuckoff (Goodreads Author)
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Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference
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Cordelia Fine (Goodreads Author)
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Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World
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The Secret History of Wonder Woman
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Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance
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Angela Duckworth (Goodreads Author)
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Take Command: Find Your Inner Strength, Build Enduring Relationships, and Live the Life You Want
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Joe Hart (Goodreads Author)
4.26 avg rating — 7,127 ratings
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Fate Finally Found Us: Tommy and Barbara Beal: A Compelling Story of Rock 'n' Roll, His Overcoming Addiction, and Rediscovering Love
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The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream
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Barack Obama (Goodreads Author)
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H is for Hawk
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Why Not Me?
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Mindy Kaling (Goodreads Author)
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A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There
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Growing Up American
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Rafael Polo (Goodreads Author)
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The Fire Next Time
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Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
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Long Walk to Freedom
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Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
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Alison Bechdel (Goodreads Author)
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A Long Way Home
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The Republic
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Capital in the Twenty First Century
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The Wordy Shipmates
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A House in the Sky
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The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope
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William Kamkwamba (Goodreads Author)
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The Daughter of Kurdland: A Life Dedicated to Humankind
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Widad Akreyi (Goodreads Author)
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The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity
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Mind Hunter: Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit
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What WE Lost: Inside The Attack on Canada’s Largest Children’s Charity
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The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II
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Secret to Startup Failure: Fail Fast. Fail Cheap. Fail Happy.
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Sonia Lin (Goodreads Author)
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The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
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The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom
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The Reason I Jump: the Inner Voice of a Thirteen-Year-Old Boy with Autism
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And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic
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Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage
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Elizabeth Gilbert (Goodreads Author)
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A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose
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Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith
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Jon Krakauer (Goodreads Author)
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The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing
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Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
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The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating
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Jan 23, 2010 05:52PM
This is a great list. I love non-fiction so will be able to use it as a guide. I don't know how to add a book but would like to reccomend Zarafa: A Giraffe's True Story, from Deep in Africa to the Heart of Paris by Michael Allin.
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Great list! Some non-fiction is just so utterly boring . . thank you for creating such a wonderful list.
You add books at the top of the list, at the tab next to "all votes."However, if you are the author I believe that is no longer possible; too many authors were abusing the privilege.
I read a ton of non fiction, I have added my limit of 100 books.
@StaceySaid it before and I'll say it again: As you share the same first name with the author, I can't escape the notion that you might be one and the same person?
# 757 The Woman in White and # 797 A Darkness Absolute are both fiction, as are #1014 Still Life, #1027 Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, and #1089 Murder on the Orient Express.#1181 The Great Gatsby (THE great American NOVEL!!!)
21 duplicates found and removedI’ll start in the next days removing fiction, appreciable any listings (less books to check it if I know for sure it’s fiction :-D)
Agnieszka wrote: "21 duplicates found and removedI’ll start in the next days removing fiction, appreciable any listings (less books to check it if I know for sure it’s fiction :-D)"
Murder on the Orient Express is fiction.
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